The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1887-12-16
NUMBER AZ.

to be tue largest lumber aud timber
mart IN the whole country. After
I the war was over the business slim
| ped from Savannah aud went off to
Darieu, in Georgia; the heavy pine
was then coming down the Altama-
ha river, and the Savannah men
went or to Ddrien or sent their ju-
nior partners and chief clerks of
there. 1t did not take long to clear
Darien out, aud that and Savannah
are now abandoned as important
lumber places. The younger part
ners soOn found there way around
to Pensacola and Mobile, and those
two places, with Pascagoula, supply
so per centaofall the pitch pine or
real yellow pine lumber in the com.
try. In the meantime the rosemary
or short-leaied pine of North Caro-
lima has beeu brought intO market,
and by use of the kilD-drying pro-
cess, six days being required to
keep the lumber in the kiln, its sap
or oil, which used to turn sour and
then turn black, is suppressed, and
it is doing first rate work for beams,
linlngs, etcP
sis hemlock of much account %
Hemlock is ruled out by our
building inspectors in New York as
material for jOists aud heavy tram
ing. 1t is knotty wood and not
as strong as pine. But lumber is
becoming so scarce in many parts
of the country that hemlock enters
into a cool many of the require
ments of plain, simple building.
When vanished up it takes dark
tone, aud it is not without it's beau-
ty."
"DOes much American lumber go
to Europe :"
"We send the logs or the heavy
timber both to Europe and tue West
Indies, but should say fully eighty
per cent. of all American timber
and lumber is used in our own coun.
try. We do not export the boards
directly TO Europe. Quebec is con
siderable of place for the exporta.
tion Of lumber to Europe. The
English use Norway FIR and spruce,
as well as Russian lumber of the
same kind, for beams"
"Does the California Redwood
come into general use in the East i''
"No. 1t is a coarse grained wood,
and is used mainly for large feat
ures, such as bay windows"
SHINGLES.
"What is the difference between
the cypress shingles of the South
and the sawed white pine shingle of
the West p
"The spruce shingles cost from
30 TO S12 a thousand, and the saw
ed white pine costs from 81 to $5
bur the cypress shingles
average so much larger that there
is often economy in using them.
Where you require $4,000 shingles
10 roof barn, for example, you
would want but about 1000 OF the
cypress, at 80 "a thousand they
would cost you something like $40.
These shingles last from 90 to. 100
years, while the white pine shingles
ire not good for more than twenty
years, unless they are painted"
While We were talking we were
yoing over a lumber railroad be-
,ween Albemarle Sound aud Juni-
Der Swamp, and l inquired how
much they gave for ties down there
lnd how many they put to the mile.
Mr.. Roper said that they gave
lbout eight cents apiece for the ties
1n the spot. aud that they ran z, 1000
Df them to the mile, which WAS
I bout 500 more than we used on
Northern aud Western railroads.
1t therefore costs about S240 per
nile for the ties. The heavy rail
put dowuon a portion of this road
ran 80 pounds to the yard, while a
light rail used for temporary rail
road was only twenty-five pounds
to the yard. In short, this lumber
has been built and equip
ped for twenty five thousand dollars
4 mile, and that included some $40
300 spent for rolling stock aud craft.
Al fine little steamer, with an irou
hull, only two or three years old,
bad cost $4,000 secondhand aud
was run for fifteen dollars day.
The lumbermen only paid four cents
per log ia the Juniper swamp for
labor on the cypress boats, aud
gave ten cents a yard for laying
down corduroy, on which to placea
wooden timber track. They ran
two hundred hands ia their chief
board mill, which cost between
80, 900 aud 10000 dollars, aud turn
ed out ten thousand feet Of lumber
a DAY. 1 understood that 1t took
about four hundred shingles to ev-
cry square OF one hundred square
feet.
Teacher Ito small boy in ge0gra-
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